Intellectual Property refers to creation of the mind, inventions, literary and artistic works that somebody has created as well as symbols, names, images and designs used in commerce; and that the law prevents other people from copying". Types of Intellectual Property Rights are Copyright, patent, trade mark, trade secret and so on.

Engaging software outsourcing or offshore software development can make you ponder if you have to surrender your intellectual Property Rights to companies providing these services. The answer is NO, especially at HyTech Professionals.We, at HyTech Professionals work on "work for hire" basis. We respect our client's Intellectual Property Rights as it is their property and we provide both legal and technical protection to their possession.

Protection

Fast paced communications is very essential in offshore software outsourcing. We, at HyTech Professionals take all necessary steps to provide protection to e-mail systems, servers like database servers and web servers, and user desktop systems from Virus and Trojans.

Offshore outsourcing may have a drawback that there is no way to know whether the software used for developing your solutions are real or pirated. This is ensured at HyTech Professionals as licenses of software used in our state-of-art development center at Noida are recent. Also, if we use third party controls or code is used in our client's work, we ensure that code is used after proper analysis of the licensing policy and so there are no licensing issues for the client.

Confidentiality

HyTech Professionals take special care that confidentiality of clients' business data is maintained. That is why each of our employee signs confidentiality and Non-disclosure Contract. Similarly, steps like Password management, documentation management and control are also employed.

The software developed for a client can be assessed by developers and quality assurance team only. Also, system administrators are the only people who can access servers which are protected by password. We take every step to protect your business' confidentiality as we understand that our success lies in our client's satisfaction.

Backup

After delivering a project, we keep up offline backups and delete all information from the server. Both software and data are kept in systems with highly restricted access (However, the backup can be deleted on client's request.

Additional Protection Measures

Apart from the above mentioned measures, we may provide for additional protection measures based on client's requirements. They are

• Physically Seperate Units: During the ongoing project, we provide physically seperate unit within the office with limited access to authorized professionals only. The belongings of such professionals are monitored before going in and out of the restricted area. In addition, the computers in these seperate units have no media drives.
• Network Access: We provide Virtual Private Network Access to client's server. This ensures that only authorized persons can access the network and data cannot be intercepted. Also, limited internet access can be provided over 100% monitored network.